ForumIAS announcing GS Foundation Program for UPSC CSE 2025-26 from 19 April. Click Here for more information.
ForumIAS Answer Writing Focus Group (AWFG) for Mains 2024 commencing from 24th June 2024. The Entrance Test for the program will be held on 28th April 2024 at 9 AM. To know more about the program visit: https://forumias.com/blog/awfg2024
Context
- India’s relations with Israel should not come at the “expense of ties” with Palestine in respect to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel.
- India is trying to manage its own balance in the region, and making a separation between these ties as well.
Visit to Tel Aviv
- From July 4th, Mr. Modi will be travelling to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
- Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel.
- Unlike President Mukherjee, and three External Affairs Ministers Jaswant Singh (2000), S.M. Krishna (2012) and Sushma Swaraj (2016), Mr. Modi will not pay a visit to the Palestinian side.
- Instead, the government had hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Delhi in May this year.
- President Mahmoud signed several agreements on development assistance, and backing Palestine’s claim to a “two-state solution” in Delhi during his visit.
Read More on India-Palestine Issue Here
